From douglas at music.columbia.edu Sat Jul 9 11:29:53 2005 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas irving repetto) Date: Sat Jul 9 11:29:58 2005 Subject: [ArtBots-announce] ArtBots is next week! Message-ID: Please help us spread the word. -- douglas ----- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9 July 2005 Contact: Douglas Repetto artbots@artbots.org Dublin - The fourth annual ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots, will take place at Saints Michael and John Church in Dublin, Ireland on July 15-17, 2005. The show is free and open to the public from noon-6pm each day. Featuring 21 works selected from a large and diverse pool of entries submitted by artists from around the world, the show celebrates the strange and wonderful collision of shifty artists, disgraced engineers, high/low/no tech hackers, rogue scientists, beauty school dropouts, backyard pyros, and industrial spys that has come to define the emerging field of robotic art. Participants include robots that dance, draw, wiggle, clack, sway, and bobble, as well a number of works the form and function of which are not yet well understood. In addition, two free robotics workshops will be offered throughout the show. In keeping with the "Robot Talent Show" theme, attendees will be invited to vote for their favorite ArtBot. Two awards will be presented at the end of the show: The Audience Choice Award and The Artists' Choice Award. All ArtBots artists and curators will be present throughout the event. ArtBots 2005 is made possible by the generous support of The Ark: A Cultural Centre for Children (Dublin), and The Columbia University Computer Music Center (New York), and is being produced as part of The Ark's summer Save the Robots Festival: http://www.robots.ie. The ArtBots 2005 curators are: Douglas Repetto (Columbia University Computer Music Center), Michael John Gorman (The Ark), and Marie Redmond (Trinity College Computer Science). Information on all ArtBots participants, including images, artist statements, biographies, and links, is available now on the ArtBots website: http://artbots.org FACTS AT A GLANCE What: ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show When: Noon-6pm, July 15-17, 2005 Where: Saints Michael and John Church Essex Street West, Dublin 8 Admission: FREE! Additional information, including schedules, directions to the event, and information about the participants is available at: http://artbots.org Works and Participants A Circle of Friends Discuss James Clerk Maxwell: Mark Esper (New York City); Cockroach controlled mobile robot #2: Garnet Hertz (Saskatchewan); Curiously Strong: Amanda Parkes & Jessica Banks (Boston/Cambridge); Escape: Peter O'Kennedy (Dublin); Malla Electrocin?tica #1: Elias Crespin (Caracas); Nervous: Bjoern Schuelke (Cologne); Outerspace: Markus Lerner & Andre Stubbe (Berlin); Rag-n-bone Man: Eduard Bersudsky (Leningrad/Glasgow); Retrospectrum: Yoav Bergner & LoVid (New York City); Ribbon Dancer: Bruce Shapiro (Minnesota) ROBOZOIC: Brett Doar (New York City); Scale: Erika Lincoln (Winnipeg) Shockbot Corejulio: Christian G?tzer & Emanuel Andel (Vienna); Sketch of a Field of Grass: Ryan Wolfe (San Francisco); Translator II: Grower: Sabrina Raaf (Chicago); WATSCHENDISKURS: Frank Fietzek & Uli Winters (Berlin/Hamburg); WavePuppet: William Tremblay & Rob Gonsalves (Boston); Weed: A.R.T. (Mass/Maine/New York); You Move Me: Lara Greene (Edinburgh) Workshops: MIDI Scrapyard Challenge: Jonah Brucker-Cohen & Katherine Moriwaki (New York City); 60 Minutes Bot: Ralf Schreiber & Tina Tonagel (Cologne) -- From douglas at music.columbia.edu Thu Jul 21 20:50:24 2005 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas irving repetto) Date: Thu Jul 21 20:50:31 2005 Subject: [ArtBots-announce] Thanks for another wonderful ArtBots show! Message-ID: Thanks for another wonderful ArtBots show! The Fourth Annual ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots, took place on July 15, 16, 17 at Saints Michael and John Church in Dublin, Ireland. It was a terrific show, with 21 works selected from a large and diverse pool of entries submitted by artists from around the world. Over 1650 visitors attended the three day exhibition! We'd like to thank the many hard-working artists and volunteers from around the world who kindly contributed their time and tremendous energy to the show. Putting on a low-budget but ambitious exhibition like ArtBots takes an awful lot of work, and without the talent and support of our many collaborators and volunteers it could never happen. Thanks also to our sponsors, The Ark: A Cultural Centre for Children, and the Columbia University Computer Music Center, who very generously provided not only the funds, but also the time and institutional support necessary to produce the show. And finally, special thanks to Michael John Gorman and Marie Redmond, my ArtBots co-curators this year. Their dedication and enthusiasm for having ArtBots in Dublin were the foundations of this year's show. While ArtBots isn't a competition, each year we give out two fun prizes: the Audience Choice Award and the Artists' Choice Award. The prizes this year were generously created and donated by The Monster Factory. The winner of the 2005 Audience Choice award was Garnet Hertz's "Cockroach controlled mobile robot #2". The winner of the 2005 Artists' choice award was Elias Crespin's "Malla Electrocin?tica #1". Congratulations to Garnet, Elias, and all of the artists for putting on such a lovely and well-loved show. We'll be back next year, so get to work! Douglas Repetto Director, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show Documentation from the show slowly trickling in at: http://artbots.org --